By Christina Noelle

Author Christina Noelle, a Chicago native and urban lifestyle specialist, takes you through the history of the Urban Loft in Chicago.

Just the word Loft conjures up images of rough and tumbled edges. Cool hip places. Urban atmosphere. It has personality. It has substance. Just like the lofts themselves, the idea of loft is as different and inspired as the people who dwell in them. As loft has moved around the country, it has become different things for different people. And it has just as much to do with the people responsible for creating them as it does for the organic evolution of the architecture.

This full color 168 page coffee table book with over 200 illustrations is the perfect gift for anybody who loves the city of Chicago.

About the Author
Christine Noelle, Chicago native and Urban Lifestyle Specialist, is the core and inspiration behind some of the nation's most progressive, energetic, trend-setting and successful urban neighborhoods. A visionary behind the development of the Urban Loft concept, she has redefined the urban lifestyle, embracing convenience and luxury, art and ingenuity to develop inviting and thriving enclaves of chic sophistication and metropolitan spirit.


$49.95 plus $4.00 shipping and handling

By Beth Dunlop / Photography By Steven Brooke

The revitalization of Miami's South Beach Art Deco District is one of the great success stories of twentieth-century architecture and urban design. In the wake of this success, a modernist building boom resulted to complement the existing Art Deco gems, and the development Aqua is the culmination of this urban transformation. The brainchild of the developer Craig Robins, Aqua is the first New Urbanist community that features exclusively modernist work--with a star roster of architects, such as Walter Chatham, Alison Spear, Hariri & Hariri, Brown Demandt, Duany Plater-Zyberk and Alexander Gorlin. The result is an unprecedented residential enclave that combines the best of neo-traditional urbanism with cutting-edge modernist designs. In addition, specifically commissioned artwork by internationally renowned artists Richard Tuttle, Guillermo Kuitca, and Mark Handforth further engages the senses and activates Aqua's community spaces. Aqua -a realized vision for living in both Miami Beach and beyond provides a compelling model for the future of growing communities worldwide.

About the Author
Beth Dunlop is the author of numerous books, including Arquitectonica. She is Editor-in-Chief of HOME Miami magazine and an award-winning architecture critic of the Miami Herald. She is also a regular contributor to House & Garden Magazine.


$60.00 plus $4.00 shipping and handling

Edited by Francesca Grassi & Rirkrit Tiravanija Text by Gridthiya Gaweewong, Hans Ulrich Obr, Philippe Parreno, Bruce Sterling

Published by JRP/Ringier
In Co-Edition with Bridge House Publishing

Rirkrit Tiravanija, one of the most innovative and influential artists of our time, establishes art events as occasions for social interaction. This lavishly illustrated book (over 1000 images) is the first monograph on the artist and provides a comprehensive photographic survey of every work he has produced from 1998 to 2007.


$75.00 plus $4.00 shipping and handling

Bridge House Publishing creates and distributes high-quality books on all subjects related to the fine arts. The focus is on contemporary art, photography, design and architecture. Bridge House Publishing also distributes books worldwide for other publishers and museums. Among the new titles is a book on Carlos Alfonzo, the late Cuban-American artist who was a key figure in the development of expressionist painting in the 1980s.

New this spring is the illustrated humor book "Like Cats and Dogs" by Beatrice Rich who is also the author and illustrator of Bridge House's successful Vanessa series for young readers.

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